By
Alex Fullick, MBCI, CBCP, CBRA, v3ITIL.
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Preparing for the Unexpected is about how people, organizations and communities plan, prepare, test, communicate and respond to sudden unplanned events such as natural and manmade disasters and crises. The show is for everyone who wants an understanding of how plans are created for individuals, organizations and communities and for anyone who wants to know what they can do in their own lives to help protect themselves from unexpected events. There is a myth that disasters happen to others but in reality, they happen to everyone. It's just a matter of when and how well-prepared you are. The greater the level of awareness, communication and knowledge, the quicker one bounces back from adversity. The overall aim of Preparing for the Unexpected is to reduce the suffering, effects and impacts caused as a result of disasters and unexpected life events by increasing knowledge and awareness of Business Contingency and Disaster Planning and related activities.

123 episodes available.
A new episode about every
5 days
averaging 50 mins duration
.

For Business Continuity / Disaster Planning programs to be truly effective and meet the needs of organizations, they need to work with other organization programs. This week we will focus on Information Security and Privacy with recognized InfoSec expert, Jason Maynard. We will learn the various ways in which organizations can be compromised th ...…

For any organization, validating their Business Continuity, Crisis Management, IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Emergency Response Plans - among others - it paramount. The problem often encountered due to resource availability, time and costs, is that many organizations rely on the Tabletop exercise to validate their protocols. Thought valuable, a ...…

One of the most common problems organizations have today, is the coordination and management of their supply chains. All too often, organizations neglect to pay close attention to the dependencies that exist with their upstream and downstream partners, which can create many challenges should they experience a disruption. We speak with Supply Ch ...…

Social Media can help us in many ways but it can also cause us harm if we don't pay close attention to what information is being presented by the various social media platforms. This week, we talk with Lt. Glen Mills who is a specialist in monitoring social media for situational awareness and is a Lieutenant with the Burlington, Massachusetts p ...…

Social Media can help us in many ways but it can also cause us harm if we don't pay close attention to what information is being presented by the various social media platforms. This week, we talk with Lt. Glen Mills who is a specialist in monitoring social media for situational awareness and is a Lieutenant with the Burlington, Massachusetts p ...…

Managing Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery programs can be a challenge, especially if a BC-DR practitioner doesn't have the right skills to juggle various program components and priorities. We will talk with BC-DR industry experts and project management professionals Ralph Kliem and Gregg Ritchie - the authors of 'Business Continuity Plan ...…

One of the most important aspects of building a Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Program is ensuring the quality of planning and execution of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The BIA is the foundation upon which a strong program is build. Leveraging information contained within his book "Business Impact Analysis: Building the Foundatio ...…

Terrorism is a major topic that grabs headlines around the globe almost on a daily basis and for BCM/DR/ERM practitioners, it might be a topic we only learn about from those headlines. This week we'll talk with global terrorism expert and author, Professor Richard English from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prof. English is the ...…

In this episode we'll talk to industry expert Dennis Lenard about the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and it's relationship to the IT Disaster Recovery Plan (ITDRP). In many instances, IT recovery planning is performed solely within the IT department, without communication to other departments in the organization. The BIA provides a wealth of in ...…

This show is Part 2 of our conversation with BC experts and authors, David Lindstedt and Marc Armour. We'll continue to discuss "Adaptive Business Continuity - A New Approach" and what readers, listeners and BC professionals can expect from a new way of thinking about BCM. David and Mark will provide some insight in to what works in today's BCM ...…

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is always trying to progress itself - sometimes successfully and sometime with not so much. For BCM and Disaster Recovery (DR) to stay relevant with other industries such as Privacy, Security, Information Security et al, it needs to think differently. We'll be joined by BCM thought leaders and authors David ...…

One of the newest and most talked about subjects for BCM and DR professionals is how to plan for, and respond to, an active shooter situation. The headlines have been full of examples in recent years and BCM /DR professionals need to have solid understanding of how to manage such situations. For this episdoe, we'll speak with known expert David ...…

December and part of January hold many significant celebration periods and times for individuals to take some sort of holiday. Regardless of religious or spiritual beliefs, these two months have multiple celebrations around the globe - and sometimes people aren't prepared for the possibility of there being a disaster or crisis situation. This s ...…

Continuing with our speaker series from the "Continuity & Resilience Today" conference (Toronto, May 2018), this week's episode will focus on BCM Program Trends and what successful programs are doing right. We speak with well-known and well-respected industry recruiter, Cheyene Marling. More than ever business continuity professionals want to k ...…

To paraphrase a well-known saying, 'We must learn from our mistakes and from the mistakes of others'. In BCM, DR and Crisis Management we talk allot about Lessons Learned and making changes but a Lesson Learned without action, is simply a Lesson Identified or Observed. All too often, the lesson we could learn from remains an observation. World ...…

The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) held its 25th Anniversary Global Conference in Manila, Philippines, November 13-16, 2018. This episode will provide a conference summary of some of the great speakers and presentations represented; from thoughtful and insightful presentations to some of the detailed research oriented sessio ...…

Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disast ...…

Continuing with our series of speakers from the Continuity & Resilience Today conference in Toronto (May 2018), we speak with Paul Doucet who is the Regional Security Manager, Security Solutions, for the Asia Pacific region for Joint Venture International SOS and Control Risks. Paul with discuss the current global terrorism threats and the plan ...…

As part of a well-functioning BCM/DR program, we should be learning from our mistakes and ensuring we can adapt and learn from the events of the past. For most, the assumption is we will learn from only our mistakes and not the mistakes of others or the past. We speak with business expert and author John Vespasian who will provide us insights o ...…

Many organizations have plans to help their employees evacuate buildings and get to safe locations and then is the extent of most employee-related BCM plans. But disasters affect people differently and sometimes those impacts aren't know right away and don't appear until well after the situation. This episode will take BCM/DR practitioners to a ...…

This episode will be a recap and summary of the recent Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) in Phoenix, Arizona from September 23 - 26/18. Preparing for the Unexpected aired LIVE on September 24th but that wasn't the only highlight of the conference. We'll review some of the sessions presented and provide a recap of some of the guests that stopped b ...…

We see many Crisis Management examples every day in the headlines of major news outlets, either on the internet or in print. Quite often the examples referenced in major news outlets don't cover examples - both goo and bad - from other areas for the globe. In this episode we talk with Prof Duncan Koerber, author of 'Crisis Communications in Can ...…

We continue with our speaker series from the "Continuity & Resilience Today" conference (Toronto, May 2018) as we chat with award winning BCM specialist, Marie-Helene Primeau. We talk about how using your Business Continuity Plans (BCP) for smaller incidents and interruptions increases the resilience of your organization and the Return on Inves ...…

What makes a good crisis leader? How is it that they prepare and respond to situations differently? How do successful crisis leaders think and feel? It's not easy being an organization's Crisis Management Team Leader while probably having responsibility for Business As Usual tasks. It's this buy schedule and the management of it, that sets the ...…

Managing Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery programs can be a challenge, especially if a BC-DR practitioner doesn't have the right skills to juggle various program components and priorities. We will talk with BC-DR industry experts and project management professionals Ralph Kliem and Gregg Ritchie - the authors of 'Business Continuity Plan ...…

Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disast ...…

Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disast ...…

Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disast ...…

Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disast ...…

Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disast ...…

We put allot of energy into creating our BCM/BCP/DR plans and some can contain reams and reams of information but the bigger the plan doesn't always equate to a better plans. To often the plans contain information that doesn't help the user because there is too much fluff in the plan and not enough actions. This week's show will identify 12 seg ...…

Continuing with our speaker series from the "Continuity & Resilience Today" conference (Toronto, May 2018), this week's episode will focus on BCM Program Trends and what successful programs are doing right. We speak with well-known and well-respected industry recruiter, Cheyene Marling. More than ever business continuity professionals want to k ...…

Part 2 of How BCM programs address our fears. People around the world share some common fears, regardless of their location, ethnicity or their place in history. In the1st episode of a 2 part series, we'll identify these common fears and provide examples of how Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) programs h ...…

For decades BCM / DR professionals have performed the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) the same way with the same results; often not quite the results expected. John Jackson, an early visionary in BCM / DR, talks about how the traditional BIA may need to change; change how we ask questions, who we ask information from and what results it needs to ...…

People around the world share some common fears, regardless of their location, ethnicity or their place in history. In the1st episode of a 2 part series, we'll identify these common fears and provide examples of how Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) programs help to address these fears. We'll identify key ...…

Cyber Security is a relatively new realm in the Business Continuity / Disaster Planning / Information Security world and often, people are clear on what it is or how should help during crises. For this show, we speak with expert Douglas Grant who will share his experiences integrating cyber security best practices into a broader incident manage ...…

Many organizations see BCM/DR as an expense but we'll speak with Marty Fox, author of "The Ultimate Business Continuity $uccess Guide", who will tips and ideas of how BCM/DR can add value to an organization. Marty has a passion for Business Continuity and has extensive global experiences when building and maintaining BCM/DR programs. Marty will ...…

Communications during disasters is paramount, especially when there is the potential for the loss of human life. The need for communications and the way we communicate, along with what we communicate, has changed with the advent of social media and drones. We speak with social media expert, researcher and author of "Social Media, Crisis Communi ...…

We all experience failure at some point and organizations aren't spared these experiences. What sets some organizations and people apart is their ability to bounce back from adversity and move forward. We speak with renown speaker, entrepreneur and author Barry J. Moltz about how some people - the most important component of any organization, a ...…

Sometimes you just can't build or manage your Business Continuity Management (BCM) / Disaster Recovery (DR) program because your organization may not have the ability to develop and implement the program or the skillls to do it. When that discovery is made, you might look outside your organization for help; an external vendor or a consulting se ...…

No matter the level of experience a Business Continuity Management, Emergency Management or Disaster Recovery professional, there are always activities that we can leverage to increase our exposure and knowledge in the industry. We speak with renowned author and award-winning consultant Suzanne Bernier, who will provide us many great tips and t ...…

A key component of any Business Continuity Management (BC) program is ensuring the mitigation of impacts created when an organization's supply chain is impacted. This week we'll talk to noted supply chain management expert and author of "A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity" Betty Kildow. Betty has been working in Business Con ...…

One of the key components of any organization, which includes a core component of any Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Program, is Risk Management. Risk Management is a process that is one of the first components of creating a successful, fit-for-purpose BCM/DR Program. We'll talk to Alvaro Orrantia, Sr. Director of Global Disaster Recover ...…

The Continuity & Resilience Today (CRT) conference was held May 29-31, 2018 in Toronto at the Sheraton Downton Hotel. It was the inaugural CRT conference that was originally part of the old World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM). This show provides a quick overview and summary of some of the sessions held over the 3 days and some of the ...…

This show is Part 2 of our conversation with BC experts and authors, David Lindstedt and Marc Armour. We'll continue to discuss "Adaptive Business Continuity - A New Approach" and what readers, listeners and BC professionals can expect from a new way of thinking about BCM. David and Mark will provide some insight in to what works in today's BCM ...…

For decades BCM / DR professionals have performed the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) the same way with the same results; often not quite the results expected. John Jackson, an early visionary in BCM / DR, talks about how the traditional BIA may need to change; change how we ask questions, who we ask information from and what results it needs to ...…

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